Award 2021
Welcome to the Social Art Award 2021 – Online Gallery!
We are grateful for the many inspiring contributions from artists around the world. The selected works reflect a broad spectrum of contemporary social art practices and explore new relationships between humans, nature, and technology. They address themes such as ecological regeneration, climate justice, sustainable futures, social resilience, and more-than-human perspectives.
Below you will find the submissions from the Social Art Award 2021 – New Greening edition that passed the initial jury round. The Online Gallery offers public visibility to these works and encourages dialogue around their ideas and approaches; it does not replace the final jury decision.
Thank you to all artists for sharing your visionary and committed work. We invite you to explore the gallery and engage with the perspectives shaping New Greening.
The Community Bee Clinic
Lisa Korpos
The Community Bee Clinic is a radical veterinary practice and participatory installation where visitors can become emergency caregivers for dying honeybees. Through the performance of interspecies nursing care and use of speculative biomedical objects, participants are invited to engage with non-human bodies in new ways and at new scales. This socially-engaged Sci-Art project was developed in collaboration with the Nieh Lab at the University of California, San Diego, where the health, environmental stressors, and communication of social bees are studied.
The Community Bee Clinic is a radical veterinary practice and participatory installation where visitors can become emergency caregivers for dying honeybees. Through the performance of interspecies nursing care and use of speculative biomedical objects, participants are invited to engage with non-human bodies in new ways and at new scales. This socially-engaged Sci-Art project was developed in collaboration with the Nieh Lab at the University of California, San Diego, where the health, environmental stressors, and communication of social bees are studied.